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  5. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel by a Nobel laureate: "It was Thursday, Miss Millington's afternoon off, and Mr Stone had to...

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  6. Laurie Taylor column

    From: The Office of the President (formerly Vice-Chancellor) Subject: Nomenclature Revision As you may be aware, Warwick University has decided to break away from centuries of tradition and rename...

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  7. Leader: It's time to act on contract staff

    When the Association of University Teachers held its annual meeting on fixed-term staff last week, one workshop proved particularly popular. It was the session dedicated to preparing for July 10,...

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  8. Leader: High cost of a prose job

    What amounts to cheating? When is help for students too much help? The answers are not clear, as the latest row over the "spoon-feeding" of students shows. Providing students with lists of...

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  9. Just a black-and-white issue? 1

    Unlike your previous correspondents on black-white IQ differences (Letters, March 31), we are specialists on this subject. For nearly 100 years, the data have shown that in dozens of studies...

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  10. Just a black-and-white issue? 2

    The suspension of Frank Ellis by Leeds University reflects the weakness of the academic community as it submits to institutional mob rule. Those who condemn Ellis should disprove his assertations,...

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  11. Just a black-and-white issue? 3

    As a black member of staff at Leeds University, I find it heartening that the majority of students and academics seem to hold the view that responsible race relations and acade-mic freedom "are not...

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  12. Just a black-and-white issue? 4

    Your report on a possible "reinvestigation" of Geoffrey Sampson's views on race and IQ seems not to take on board the consequences of his view that Asians are, on average, more intelligent than...

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  13. Arts bias is costly

    Last month, The Times Higher suggested that I somehow disagreed with Boris Johnson's view that if students "can benefit from (a degree) they should be given every opportunity to do so" ("Boris gets...

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  14. Animal tests vital

    Phillip Duckworth has an interesting - if mistaken - take on the tragic events at a research unit at Northwick Park Hospital (Letters, March 31). That this is the first time such an adverse reaction...

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  15. Let the dinosaur die

    It was interesting to see the table of winners if quality-related research (QR) funding was distributed according to 2003-04 external research income parameters ("What will be yardstick for success...

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